Hard To Pronounce Michigan Places

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Have you ever wondered how Michigan was named Michigan? Before colonization, the now Great Lakes State was home to at least eight Native American tribes throughout the land, one of which being the Ojibwe Indians. The Ojibwe were the first people to openly interact with the French in Michigan, trading furs and knowledge of the area for guns and goods. Through translation, the state of Michigan was named after the Ojibwe Indian word “Michigama,” which means “great lake” or “land surrounded by water.”
With this in mind, we invite you to take a watch some Michiganders stumble their way through some uniquely-named destinations found across the Great Lakes State. Test yourself and learn the correct pronunciations here: www.michigan.or...

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@kingarthurup 6 жыл бұрын

How about showing the proper pronunciations at the end?

@MichiganUSASingaporeSEAsia 5 жыл бұрын

kingarthurup I know what a shortcoming video

@kiasta1 Жыл бұрын

Michigan only had enough money in their budget for their Amazon mic, used Craigslist GoPro and the gas money to drive from Lansing to Ann Arbor.

@humbleevidenceaccepter7712 7 жыл бұрын

Best part: when the guy drinks his pop to avoid "Ocqueoc."

@emanuelserry1963 6 жыл бұрын

Its soda first of all but that was funny

@firenugget366 6 жыл бұрын

It’s pop in Michigan

@melaninqueen2413 5 жыл бұрын

Yep, exactly!

@hockeymom49721 5 жыл бұрын

@@emanuelserry1963 its "POP" here in the Mitten

@torav8343 4 жыл бұрын

That part killed me

@Davido50 5 жыл бұрын

Love me some Michigan! Great ppl & state.

@RyanRedoute 3 жыл бұрын

Agreed :)

@humbleevidenceaccepter7712 4 жыл бұрын

Novi (pronouced NOE vi, with a long i) was so named because it the sixth stop on a stagecoach line. The "No" was the abbreviation for number (No.) , and the "vi" was the Roman numeral for 6 (VI).

@cmcwar Жыл бұрын

As a Michigander, I’m so proud of our confusing cities 😂

@delmontindustriesltd7501 7 жыл бұрын

I am so glad that finally someone put Ocqueoc in one of these. Not much of a place, But I have been traveling there my entire life and love it!

@mindcrime828 6 жыл бұрын

(ÔK-kē-ôk) www.michigan.gov/documents/lara/OCQUEOC-2_549063_7.mp3

@hockeymom49721 5 жыл бұрын

@Daya Ryelle ock e ock, basically

@nicolebee1028 4 жыл бұрын

Kitchitikipi made me giggle 😂😂 also surprised they didn’t mention Leelanau.

@lylelay 5 жыл бұрын

Not only can I pronounce all of these, I've been to all of them

@marcusizzard 7 жыл бұрын

dang i was hoping Sault Ste. Marie was gonna be there i like hearing people say salt instead of soo

@uajw7269 5 жыл бұрын

What its not salt? Im from michigan and said it like that this whole time

@therast5 4 жыл бұрын

@@uajw7269 nope. It's archaic french. Sault used to to means rapids; so when Pere Jacques Marquette founded the settlement on both sides of the St. Mary's River (because yes until after the war of 1812, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario used to be the same city as SSM, MI.) Translated from archaic French it means "By the Rapids of the St. Mary's.

@WillmobilePlus Жыл бұрын

If you were a kid during the sesquicentennial, you had these cities drilled into your mind.

@davezarvan 7 жыл бұрын

Answers: MACK-i-naw ip-si-LAN-tee shar-LOT BO BLOW doe-wah-JACK on-in-DAH-ga OCK-ee-ock on-tah-NAH-gin BAY-ta GRAY Kitch-iti-kipi is just how it looks.

@Babar-or8cl 7 жыл бұрын

Bete Grise (grey beast in french) : BEHT GRiZ (same "i" as in "taxi") The guy at 1:22 say it correctly

@frn512 6 жыл бұрын

"BEHT GRiZ"? All the locals in the Keweenaw (← now pronounce that!) pronounce "Bete Grise" as "Bay Degree" -- Not "Beet Grease", as it was called by the mate on the White Gull, in Ethel C. Brill's book (click →) "Copper Country Adventure": www.uproc.lib.mi.us/SecordPress/CopperCountry/Adventurefull.htm P.S. "the guy say [sic] it correctly"?

@frn512 6 жыл бұрын

"on-tah-NAH-gin", or: "On da noggin".

@jcd2777 4 жыл бұрын

It is ont noggin

@amityislandchum 4 жыл бұрын

@@Babar-or8cl That's how it would be pronounced in France. Michigan makes up their own pronunciations.

@frn512 4 жыл бұрын

Here are a few more, did we miss these? Copemish, a village in Cleon township, Manistee County. Kaleva, a village in Manistee County. Macatawa, an unincorporated community in Laketown township, Allegan County (also Lake Macatawa).

@frn512 6 жыл бұрын

There are so many more. Try these: Ewen Kaleva L'Anse Lake Fanny Hooe ("Fanny Who?"¹) Liminga Nisula Omena Oneco Onekama Palo Paavola Pori Tahquamenon (Falls) Toivola Traunik Trenary ― (¹Legend has it that Fanny Hooe (for whom the lake was named) was the sister-in-law of a young officer assigned to nearby Ft. Wilkins. She arrived at the Fort with the Captain William Alburtis family in 1846. Stories of her disappearance vary, either insisting she was picking berries outside the Fort and was either lost in the nearby forest, killed and eaten by a bear who resented her intrusion on his berry patch, or she was abducted by an Indian in retaliation for white man's intrusion on former tribal lands. She was never found, so no one knows.)

@hockeymom49721 5 жыл бұрын

Topinabee Cheboygan Petoskey I've heard them all slaughtered beside the norms that most know in these parts.

@tuckpoint0 2 жыл бұрын

Did you just put a goddamn footnote in a KZfaq comment?

@thischosenlife7626 2 жыл бұрын

HA. I am shocked they included Charlotte, MI in this video. I lived there for 4 yrs and absolutely no one out, or sometimes in the state, could pronounce the towns name properly (or spell it for that matter). Char-Lot. Not like the name Charlotte. I love it.

@justAman548 2 жыл бұрын

It’s more like ‘Shar-Lot’

@b.m.r221 2 жыл бұрын

Really I could always have known but… that’s on my family having traveled most the state anyways

@chriscapaccio4342 5 жыл бұрын

Holy crap. I'm from Boston, and I thought Massachusetts was bad.

@alexcrawford5350 4 жыл бұрын

Hey, I live in Massachusetts, too!

@amityislandchum 4 жыл бұрын

Yup, New Englanders always think they have the rest of the country beat when it comes to crazy pronunciations, because they've butchered so many British names. Then they come to the northern midwest and are confronted by all the Native American/French hybrid words we've butchered, and realize they actually have it pretty easy in NE!

@tashacherry1480 2 жыл бұрын

What about Wyandotte? I was born and raised there, great city full of love.... and a lot of Pollocks🥰

@XxMissWickedXx 6 жыл бұрын

I feel like Charlevoix should be on this list.

@emisterdibster 6 жыл бұрын

XxMissWickedXx Me too!

@adrianelias2365 5 жыл бұрын

People keep pronouncing it wrong. It should end in "vwah". People who don't have any grasp in the French language say "Voi". I cringe every time.

@hockeymom49721 5 жыл бұрын

@@adrianelias2365 but that's just how it's been said for so long, its stayed that way

@MichiganUSASingaporeSEAsia 5 жыл бұрын

XxMissWickedXx oh yeah for sure

@66flamer 6 жыл бұрын

And they didn't bring up Kalamazoo. Okay it's not that hard to say but I'm surprised.

@cxndymoon5498 6 жыл бұрын

66flamer kalamazoo is not hard to pronounce for me

@MichiganUSASingaporeSEAsia 5 жыл бұрын

66flamer o also shocked Kalamazoo, Oshtemo, ostego and Saugatuck

@Arlothed1no 5 жыл бұрын

I wanna see people pronounce Vergennes and Lowell. I've seen some people pronounce Vergennes as Virgins including Siri. Google maps pronounces it as "Ver-gen-niss". Another GPS pronounces is at "Verdegens".

@hayliedlr 4 жыл бұрын

Charlevoix was one I was waiting for.

@Thousandaire-n7o 11 күн бұрын

@@Arlothed1noWell, GPS does lots and lots of goofy things. As an Uber/Lyft driver in Ann Arbor I've heard a few good ones. My favorite is a street called Traverwood (TRAY-ver-wood) which the GPS pronounces "tra-VER-wood".

@tnelson4593 8 ай бұрын

Dowagiac. (Doe-wah-Jack) The G is pronounced as a J. It’s a Potawatomi word meaning “Fishing near home water” Dowagiac is the Headquarters for the Potawatomi Indian tribe. One of the Four Winds Casino’s is located there. It’s also home to Southwestern Michigan College (Roadrunners.) Dowagiac has a lot of history. The Artificial fishing lure was invented there. It was once known as the “ Furnace Capital of the World “ “Stove Town “ most of the furnace and stove companies were in Dowagiac. Round Oak foundry was big. Americas first spaceman Iven Kincheloe set the altitude record was a 1945 Dowagiac High graduate. “ The Gentle Giant “ Chris Taylor Olympic wrestler was from the Dowagiac. Webb Miller journalist was from Dowagiac area. Webb Millers Biography is very interesting. What a life! Many other notable people call Dowagiac home.

@Jack-zy6ik 4 жыл бұрын

Bois Blanc Island (commonly referred to as Boblo) is actually a Canadian island in the Detroit River.

@aaronnachazel247 2 жыл бұрын

Actually in the Straights of Mackinac

@Pranks313 7 жыл бұрын

Why isn't Gratiot on this list?(road name in Detroit)

@RyanRedoute 3 жыл бұрын

They could probably do a whole video on road names haha

@erbewayne6868 2 жыл бұрын

Detroit north to Port Huron named after the fort commander.

@melaninqueen2413 5 жыл бұрын

I was born and raised in Ann Arbor, but then I moved to the south almost 8 years ago, when I was 11. I knew a couple, but the rest of the cities I had never heard of before. Maybe because I lived in southeastern Michigan and I never went that far up north! I feel ashamed!

@RadmanGalaxy 7 жыл бұрын

lol this video is a LOT of fun!!!

@rwdplz1 7 жыл бұрын

*swigs Diet Coke*

@Joeliterallyjoe 7 жыл бұрын

rwdplz1 Pop

@frn512 6 жыл бұрын

Faygo: Creme Soda, Orange, Redpop, Rock N' Rye, Root Beer … Vernors: Ginger Ale (up yer nose and make ya sneeze!)

@chrisgast 5 жыл бұрын

He's like "you're on your own, buddy." LOL

@ruhtra-k 2 жыл бұрын

Depends on what you consider to be the correct pronunciation. How the origin language of the name pronounces it or how the locals pronounce it. For example, next to Dowagiac (or dog patch for local slang) is a town called Eau Claire, French for clear water. Should be pronounced O Clare, unless you’re from Eau Claire, then it’s Aw Clare.

@georgeadams1853 Ай бұрын

Oh Clare is in Wisconsinj, Aw Clare is in Michigan, and Clearwater is in Florida.

@trainroomgary 7 жыл бұрын

Cool / a lot's of fun. • Cheers from The Detroit & Mackinac Railway 🚂

@frn512 4 жыл бұрын

"D&M": Not to hijack, but that brings to mind memories (ca. late 1940s/early 1950s) of the Duluth South Shore and Atlantic (DSS&A), a.k.a. "Dust, Sand, Soot & Ashes" (From the steam locomotive era.) or "Damn Slow Service & Abuse" (Thinking of that interminable hour or more spent banging and crashing in the Trout Lake rail yard disassembling and reassembling the westbound passenger train, just a mere ≈ 30 miles after crossing the straits on one of the railroad ferries!)

@trainroomgary 4 жыл бұрын

@@frn512 Hi FRN - Hi from Michigan, thanks for sharing your story. Cool 😎

@caivetoond948 6 жыл бұрын

Me being a Michigander myself, and a really good reader, I know how to pronounce every single one of those city's 😂

@amityislandchum 4 жыл бұрын

Yet you still don't know how to spell "cities." 😏

@jazz8059 7 жыл бұрын

I LIVE IN YPSILANTI

@callahanmiltenberger4086 6 жыл бұрын

SAME BRO

@sarataylor895 5 жыл бұрын

I live in ypsi i love ypsi

@melaninqueen2413 5 жыл бұрын

I lived in Ann Arbor, but now I live down south, which sucks!

@amityislandchum 4 жыл бұрын

Ypsi sucks.

@joesmithatridecorp9011 3 жыл бұрын

YPSI

@jeffschuler5659 2 жыл бұрын

Aaah How aboot one of deem Pasties !

@TradBarbie 7 жыл бұрын

They better have Kitchitikippy on here.

@pietzychannel 2 жыл бұрын

There is one missing Cadieux

@kagomeshuko 2 жыл бұрын

I think ALL states have their "hard to pronounce" towns. I live in Southwest Louisiana, so I know Louisiana has theirs and more weird words, too.

@Sevalecan 3 жыл бұрын

I'm from Michigan (and have lived here for all 30+ years of my life). Never /thought/ about how some of these were pronounced. even I'm learnin'. But I can spell Tittabawassee and Shaiwassee in my sleep 😂...

@andrewmarsman3294 3 жыл бұрын

Ocqueoc is pronounced “ock-E-ock”, I learned that being from not too far from that

@ThatWeirdo04 11 ай бұрын

Rally? Because it's spelled Shiawassee.

@Sevalecan 11 ай бұрын

I know how they're spelled, I just can't type!

@alifrommeyer5614 6 жыл бұрын

Kitch-iti-Kipi is beautiful

@vertigobridge3024 5 жыл бұрын

Need to add Pompeii to the list.

@davidjsouth231 4 жыл бұрын

Even I can’t pronounce some of these places from my home state

@RyanRedoute 3 жыл бұрын

Same haha

@fatsheeps3883 6 жыл бұрын

I KNOW THAT GITL AT 0:35 SHES A SUB FOR MY SCHOOL

@fatman1288 4 жыл бұрын

Only thing pure about Michigan is the roadsalt

@erbewayne6868 2 жыл бұрын

commandeer. St. Clair.

@jacknewton5203 6 жыл бұрын

Wtf I thought this was a John Kerfoot video... well played PM, well played.

@djjohnson9389 5 жыл бұрын

bete grise= brian griese lol

@benhatto 6 жыл бұрын

No! It needs Hamtramck!

@MichiganUSASingaporeSEAsia 5 жыл бұрын

Ben Hatto agree

@windermere2330 3 жыл бұрын

They need to do streets like Gratiot!

@Thousandaire-n7o 11 күн бұрын

@@windermere2330and Livernois, Lahser, Dequindre and Schoenherr.

@mysryuza Жыл бұрын

0:53 Me when I try to pronounce anything Some of these dudes aren’t even trying that you’d think they just want to be a legend 😂

@SoCoolScience 2 жыл бұрын

as a Yooper I knew how to pronounce all those places, thumbs up if you know what a Yooper is or are one as well.

@Loading-tr7yv 4 жыл бұрын

I haven’t heard of most of these places

@sheeznutz2254 4 жыл бұрын

What about Manistique?

@mcnuggets8798 6 жыл бұрын

I’m from mighgan and I even got some wrong

@RyanRedoute 3 жыл бұрын

Same haha

@hello-up1fo 7 жыл бұрын

When I was younger I thought my city (Belleville) was hard to say...

@melaninqueen2413 5 жыл бұрын

I lived 15 minutes away from Belleville and I knew how to say it... I'm not trying to throw any shame! JS.

@amityislandchum 4 жыл бұрын

I didn't realize until I moved out of state that we all pronounce it Bell-vell instead of the way it *should* be pronounced. Damn Michigan accent...

@brigris 6 жыл бұрын

One of those people is a guest teacher at my school all the time......

@Tinyteacher1111 3 жыл бұрын

A lot of our cities are American Indian names or French names.

@Ryan-yx9kz 6 жыл бұрын

What about novi?

@boakley23 5 жыл бұрын

Spartan's nailed it!!! Wolverine's...well, they were just being Wolverines. GO GREEN!

@jimgreen9059 6 жыл бұрын

Well, that was totally worthless, in that you didn't tell us how to pronounce them correctly. Thanks a bunch!

@christophertstone 4 жыл бұрын

Mackinac - MAC in awe Ypsilanti - IP sil anni Charlotte - CHAR lot Bois Blanc - Boy Blank ("a" from "blah"; girl in green shirt got it right, eventually) Dowagiac - Doe WAH jak Onondaga - Ah non DA guh Ocqueoc - Ah KEY Ock Ontonagon - On TOE na gon Bete Grise - Beh DE gree (rhymes with pedigree) Kitch-iti-kipi - Kitch EH-teh ki-PEE

@FVStageII-hg3dp 3 жыл бұрын

@@christophertstone Bois Blanc is pronounced bä blō

@johnvrabec9747 3 жыл бұрын

Well, since you can't read, it's in the Show More section. Duh!

@gxdjoeybaby07 3 жыл бұрын

@@christophertstone thank you!

@ThatWeirdo04 11 ай бұрын

@@christophertstone LOL most of these are wrong

@palecap 2 жыл бұрын

I found this to be such a valuable and educational video. Now I know the correct pronunciation of those place names. Not.

@tylertonkin989 6 жыл бұрын

These places aren't to pronounce unless you haven't been to Michigan/ weren't born there

@frybreadndizhnikaaz3314 5 жыл бұрын

Never been but im ojibwe lol so it was easy

@meganschleben67 7 жыл бұрын

Woohoo my home 40, Ocqueoc.

@sebastiansexzombie Жыл бұрын

Now pronounce the streets Gratiot, Dequindre, and Schoenherr lol

@jacksonsimkins4668 2 жыл бұрын

MICHIGAN GO BLUE LETSSS GOO MICHIGAN IS THE BEST STATE WE HAVE SNOW ALOT OF IT SNOW RAIN WIND ALL OF IT

@gerryroush8391 7 ай бұрын

Run, its one of dose tough Negaunee chicks😂 Ispeming Ontanagon Crystal falls no that was an easy one Houghton Escanaba

@JK-dq3pj 5 жыл бұрын

Dowagiac is pronounced duh-wah-jack

@chukwukosolu 4 жыл бұрын

1:45 the girl 2nd from right is so serious like she's on a game show

@amberkeene7574 7 жыл бұрын

I live in Dowagiac

@MichiganUSASingaporeSEAsia 5 жыл бұрын

Amber Keene I use too

@perseu1s 7 жыл бұрын

I LIVE IN CHARLOTTE SO DAMN

@GhostLeopard17 7 ай бұрын

Where’s the Tahquamenon or however you spell it

@Thousandaire-n7o 11 күн бұрын

In the northeastern section of the U.P. West of the Soo.

@GhostLeopard17 10 күн бұрын

@@Thousandaire-n7o yeah I know where it is lol, my cabin is on the river, I was wondering where it was in the video, I can’t even type it correctly lol but I can say it

@tinyb69 3 күн бұрын

Bete Grise??? Surely you meant Baie De Gres.

@landongates8346 3 жыл бұрын

Doe wa jack it’s literally a sign in the town

@_madis_5554 6 жыл бұрын

How about traverse city

@RyanRedoute 4 жыл бұрын

Pah-Knee-Ac

@RyanRedoute 3 жыл бұрын

Ah yes, the Michigan accent at it's finest. 😆

@alexcrawford5350 4 жыл бұрын

“Bryan Greasy”.

@aMiyafuji 2 жыл бұрын

Hah! She must be from around here if she said Ypsi

@roydodman3703 Жыл бұрын

Now, correctly pronounce "Lake Orion".

@sloanlance 3 жыл бұрын

"I just know how to read." (2:01)

@cxndymoon5498 6 жыл бұрын

You can pronounce mackinac sounding with the c because thats the island. Mackinaw is the city

@hockeymom49721 5 жыл бұрын

Nope. Never.

@frn512 4 жыл бұрын

But both Mackinaw and Mackinac are pronounced “Mackinaw”!

@alexcrawford5350 4 жыл бұрын

Ocqueoc: “oh-kwee-ock”? That’s what I’d guess the pronunciation is.

@amityislandchum 4 жыл бұрын

Close! Ock-ee-ock.

@lesselp 3 жыл бұрын

Michigan - my chi gan

@xyZarik 7 жыл бұрын

bete grise is gray beast 😂

@66flamer 6 жыл бұрын

And happily, I live only about a 10-minute Drive from climax. Yes I take showers regularly so it's okay.

@blackjack8957 2 жыл бұрын

C'mon what are the correct pronunciations? Please show the answers before finishing it up.

@janesmith699 4 жыл бұрын

And i thpught Muskegon was hard.

@deere3321 4 жыл бұрын

Whitmer is pronounced "moron"

@TradBarbie 7 жыл бұрын

It is😀😀😀😀😀

@andrewkauffman5453 2 жыл бұрын

Ossineke

@Sarah-eg6cn 4 жыл бұрын

This hurts me

@superhornyalien Жыл бұрын

Wow I learned nothing

@ericcartman5374 4 жыл бұрын

I AM FROM THE MITTEN STATEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

@boblongbow9170 6 жыл бұрын

you know the pretty girl in blue shirt can scream out in a Boston accent OH YAH!

@alexcrawford5350 4 жыл бұрын

“Kitchit. Kitchit. 👀 { “

@gen8089 7 жыл бұрын

YEAH CHARLOTTE IS WHERE I LIVE HAHAHHAHDBWMXUAKOFYAKQMFG

@crazygothikchick6699 6 жыл бұрын

😆😆

@MrJoshanthony734313 3 жыл бұрын

Took the land from us, erased our language and identity... the least you could do is get the pronunciation correct.